Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

If you are a Republican, and you have a kid with an IEP, this is the moment when you understand that you may support Republicans, but they don't support your family.

Comic books are (and this isn’t hyperbole) the greatest story telling medium that has ever existed. The combination of text and images rendered with a human hand is the most direct path from one mind to another. All other medium pale in comparison.

I saw someone say the other day that we are all living through a cultural gas leak. And, honestly, there is no better metaphor.

If the only thing that my kids said, by way of eulogy, was that I showed them that I loved them by crouching over very sharp pins and very dead bugs for their collection, I'd be content.

I'm guessing none of the powers that be at Disney/ABC were still paying attention at the "Oppression is the mask of fear" part of Andor, but it'd be neat if they checked that episode out.

The stupidity is only matched by the spineless.

2025 marks the fifth year talking comics history with @paisleylizard.bsky.social, @bethpollard.bsky.social, and @yidcaledon.bsky.social at #RCCC! Thank you to everyone who came out to our panel on artificial life in comics across time and space. Looking forward to next year!

The goal is to make anything -- ANYTHING -- that P2025 views as problematic obscene. Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"? Obscene. You can be arrested and charged for just listening to it. This is foundational censorship, dressed in the same bullshit Christian Values/Protect the Children bs.

It's an absolute tie between The Good Place and Derry Girls, and I'm also putting them above the GOAT list.

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

Action Comics #1 should probably just be required elementary school reading.

8-year-old girls are being returned to their parents in body bags and this man is in charge.

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

Mr. Blobby, and the image is more zoomed in for each denomination.

Since I haven't seen anyone talking about it, I think it's useful go situate Alligator Alcatraz in the context of the LAST time the US conducted a major ethnic cleansing in the Everglades. The Seminole Wars spanned nearly fifty years, one of the signatures of Andrew Jackson's presidency.

This is unacceptable, and it is imperative that @historians.org loudly and actively resist this obviously anti-democratic restriction of public access to public documents.

just block the senior member of the federal govt, this is not the place to demonstrate your fearless posting skills, you will get your life ruined for it

[Exit King.]

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

If you haven't seen Space Ghost Coast to Coast in full yet, Internet Archive has you covered archive.org/details/ghos...

In evolutionary terms, we went from bipedalism to *this* so fast.

Chosen for this moment for the same reasons as JP2 was chosen from within the Soviet bloc.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't be Pope.

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

I'm personally offended by the idea that I need an LLM to help me overuse em dashes

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

This car is 100% American made and will not be subject to the new tariffs.

Every book series with this premise is a best-seller right now.

I read superhero comics, man. Of course I fucking hate Nazis.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Had a very busy weekend.

I would really, REALLY, like to thank everyone who voted for this administration and all the chucklefucks it has empowered as we welcome a new baby this week.

thread of anti-klan cartoons from 100+ years ago

As a historian of France, I feel like I can offer some useful information on what a society can do with a leader who thinks himself an absolute monarch.

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”

Comics are great for much more than getting reluctant traders to pick up a book. They have their own virtues and should be read on those merits.

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

It's weird how many board games exist in Star Trek. "Hey, my shift ends in ten, wanna go to the special hologram room where we can do literally anything and the only limit is our imaginations?" "Nah, I'm really into Tall Chess this week."

I just signed up for this @indivisible.org call. They're literally our best bet right now for traditional political/electoral action, imo. Please consider joining me. mobilize.us/s/0x5dTb

Our dog (10 mo. Great Pyrenees/Retriver) bolted this evening, leading me on a thrilling chase around our neighborhood until I caught her. Or I thought it was just me, until a few minutes into this chase, when I caught a flash of motion in my peripheral vision.